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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Sometimes I’m contacted by someone who loves a particular painting but the original is already sold. Or maybe the person wants the piece but doesn’t want to pay the price of the original. In either situation, having reproductions available for sale is a great help. I can only create a limited number of original paintings during the course of…

When I arrived in Africa in 1994, I was keen to see as much wildlife as possible, but their tracks (or spoor) were a complete mystery to me. I soon found out that a cat track has 3 lobes on the back of the large pad – perfectly displayed in this photo of a resting leopard by my husband…

I recently joined the Creative Advisory Board of Pencils For Africa (PFA) and have just been interviewed by Chelsea, an 8th grader who is one of the Assistant Editors of the Pencils for Africa website. Here is her first question for me: What was your early inspiration to become an artist? And my answer: When I was growing…

100 Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) birds were recently listed in a paper in Current Biology. The lead author, Prof Walter Jetz, states that “by identifying these top 100 species, we can now focus our efforts on targeted conservation action and better monitoring to help ensure that they are still here for future generations to come”. I don’t paint many…

As we all know, there are many, many, many social media sites. One of my favorites is Pinterest, because it is image based. I have a number of boards, including this one about African Conservation. Some of the images are pieces of my own art, some are from conservation projects but all are linked to interesting articles…

Any second now this leopard will get up and cross the dry riverbed. Any second now I should get up, go across the hall to my studio and see if my latest wash of paint (lemon yellow) is dry. I’m working on a different spotted cat at the moment – a cheetah! Better go……

Here I am at the African People & Wildlife Fund (APW) Spring Benefit at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey, with Dr Laly Lichtenfeld of APW and Alison Jones of No Water No Life. This year’s event was even better then last year! We saw a great new video about APW, learned that there are now…